Monday, April 28, 2014

Washington DC - -(Ammoland.com)- On April 7 2014 Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe (D) made “backdoor [gun] registration” possible by rejecting an amendment to SB 377 which would have required records of gun purchases and transfers to be destroyed “within two weeks.”

The amendment applied specifically to guns a dealer seeks “to purchase, trade, or transfer…from a non-dealer.” Personal information and identification is shared in this exchange to verify that the firearms have not “been reported lost or stolen.”

The amendment assured gun owners that if the gun had not been reported lost or stolen their personal information would be destroyed “within two weeks.”

According to the NRA-ILA, McAuliffe has substituted his own amendment to SB 377: one which “would mandate that…consent forms [containing the personal information] would be kept by the dealer for at least 90 days with no requirement to destroy them ever.”

The governor’s amendment “creates backdoor registration of those seeking to sell, trade, or transfer their lawfully owned firearms to a gun dealer.”

10 comments:

What's paranoid about saying that a background check system that keeps records is a de facto registry? Mikeb, you've said you want a registry. It's not irrational to say that gun control advocates generally share that goal and view the records of the checks as an opportunity.

The governors amendment had to be sent back to congress for approval. The congress struck out the governors amendment and sent it back to the governor in its original for. He can sign it as is, veto it or let it become law on its own without signature. Either way, he doesn't get his registration.

"So it's back to being paranoia now rather than a legitimate concern as you admitted a while back. Nice."

I don't think I really admitted it was a legitimate concern. I agree that a registry COULD be used in an eventual confiscation of specific guns, but I reject the facile bullshit that you guys love to propagate. Registration leads to confiscation is nonsense, always was, always will be.

The NRA is pro-criminal, as are Greg and the gunsuck wackadoodles who post here. The only ones helped by registration bans are gun runners, criminals, and those who profit from gun running and criminal activity. This is your NRA, the best friend that criminals ever had.

Most companies keep records for customer service follow up, future solicitation, future service to the same customer and many other reasons. The gun industry is the only industry I know of that has a policy of destroying is transaction records. It doesn't follow capitalistic practices.